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[thepixelblender]

goes home, lies down, thinks about all the characters that make me go 'someone wrote you to bait me specifically'

[abberant-butler]

Why not. Trick or treat! Send in a trick or treat with one word and I will do... Micro drabbles?

Anyway 1-6 sentences probably. You can add a character if you like or I'll just pick one.

[powderrblue]

new pinned 11/20

i go by charli or any blue themed/arcane/tmnt related nicknames if yall wanna get creative!

used to have a different user which hopefully ill be able to switch back to at some point 💥

current interests include pretty much any tmnt iteration or rise aus, arcane, tfb, generation loss, language studies, undertale and the few aus i know of that (mostly zarla comics), and the occasional rambling about an smp or three

feel free to send asks about any of this stuff whenever! i love talking to people about things always

i take art requests sometimes! if ya ever want me to attempt something just let me know and i can try to do it between work (:

i spam reblog sometimes! i usually dont nowadays but if that annoys you then just be aware it might happen heart hands emoji

probably. standard ask rules. avoid implying romantic or other things about me i have a boyfriend and im not interested. be nice to me and normal about my friends and there shouldnt be a problem

[aaaaaaaaagenloser]

If I could draw it would be so over

I want to make generation loss animatics. I HAVE GOT TO LEARN TO DRAW OR I AM GOING TO EXPLODE.

[froggiesthoughts]

Its my Birthday! Closing out the night with a drink on my desk, my penjamin between my fingies, and reading smut alone in my room ^_^

[chibisquirt]

Unfortunately, I appear to be getting into tufting.

I haven't gone off the deep end yet. I did buy a latchhook and some grid cloth so I can paddle my feet in the rug-like waters, but I haven't bought anything else, not even any yarn for it! (I'm so virtuous.) (I actually am so virtuous; I'm severely weak to yarn.)

But I have been watching rug tufting videos... and looking up tufting guns online... and plotting how I'm going to go about this...

It's a problem.

The fact that, if I get good at it, this could become a viable side-hustle... is not, actually, any less of a problem.

Anyway here's all the shit I'd need to buy to actually get started with it, along with long-range plans for equivalent pieces. Under a cut for the sake of all y'all's humanity:

Tufting gun

This is the big one, and I find myself in a bit of a dilemma on it: you can get them for cheap of aliexpress, but like... do I really wanna trust something that came off aliexpress? I have not gotten anything off there, and while I have no evidence it's any worse than amazon, I have no reason to think it's any better, either. (Actually, I'm pretty sure some of the amazon listings at least *are* the aliexpress listings, being re-sold. So, avoid that one, at least.)

So anyway the tufting gun everyone says is the best runs about $250.

2. Frame

You tuft by shooting fibers into a grid made of fabric; in order to do that, you have to have the grid solidly suspended in the air. This requires a frame.

Price varies by size.

3. Tufting fabric (or equivalent)

This is the fabric that you shoot the fibers into. You can also use monks cloth or burlap, apparently. (Not to be confused with the other fabric, backing fabric, which goes on after everything else, and is what the rug actually sits on.) Not too bad, not too bad, monks cloth is about $15/yard.

4. Yarn

Not my *immediate* starting cost, just because oh god oh god I will be swimming in vanna's choice until I die, but yarn is also not the cheapest thing in the world. You can get two skeins of red heart super savor for about $15-$20, and it goes up from there.

5. Glue

Once the fibers are in the monks cloth, there's nothing really holding them there. That's why you have to glue the shit out of them! Recommended glue is carpet glue, Roberts 3000 or 3085 or something. A gallon of that is $25, or 4 for $50 at Home Depot.

6. More glue!

Yeah, you didn't think we were done, did you? Once you've glued all your fibers in place, you cut out the rug from the grid fabric and glue the edges down, this time with a different type of adhesive. Tutorial I saw recommended hot glue and spray adhesive, which, since I don't have a glue gun, means I'd be looking about $25 all together for them.

Once you've got that done, you can add your...

7. Backing fabric!

Non-slip is good if it's going on the floor... you can do a 6' by 6' square of this for $35.

8. Trimmers

Teeeechnically, I already have some trimmers, but if I'm gonna do this with any seriousness, I don't want to use those for it, because they're designed for human hair and rugs are made with sheep hair (or hair from the noble acryligoat). You can get trimmers that come with a little guide, too, which is super handy if you don't want a giant gouge down the middle of your rug. Call these $40-50.

9. Scissors

Once you've gotten your rug shaved--not a euphemism--you want to go in and outline each color with scissors to give it definition.

So all of that comes to about $500 if you're thrifty. 😬 And then you consider the costs that repeat, like the next batch of tufting fabric and yarn, and the costs that add on as not-essential-but-nice-to-have, like yarn cones, extra frames, labels... It is Yikes.

Buuuuuut... If I were to start selling them... I mean, you can get hundreds of dollars per rug. Per small rug. A thousand plus for a big one! So I do kind of think it might be financially viable.

Better to start it as a hobby first, though. And maybe be prepared to have a pretty big initial layout. :(

[velvetsssapphic]

Found something I've never seen before after searching various tumblrs for lost content (in a totally not creepy way I swear) and LOOK HOW CUTE SHE ISSSSS 🥹🥹🥹🥹

[flesh-connoisseur]

my narcissistic ass can't do shit without very specific and detailed instructions

[huskerdust-unofficial]

thinking about stolitzfizzmodeus hours 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[loverboyromanroy]

the most irritating part of coming up with a fic idea that you know is going to end up being 30k+ is writing 30k+ words......

[thepixelblender]

posting it as pressure on myself to write it but . post-s1 sk8 fic where adam finally agrees to meet matchablossom in some café for a proper talk about everything that happened back then and since then, but it turns out 1. he brought tadashi along 2. he has to be undercover to not get flagged as being ainosuke shindo so he's in casual drag . cue a tense and very strange double date w/ focus on adamcherry divorce & tadashi's place as the guy who they barely know from his removed position yet has also always been there

[miles-tails-prowers-crotch]

This is the best damn thing I've heard since Smokin Joe Rudeboy

[powderrblue]

what should i draw

[aaaaaaaaagenloser]

I FORGOT TO MENTION MY FAVPRITE FUCKING PART.

BOO BITCH! SEE YOU FOUND MY CABIN!!! [SILLIEST SLIMEY FACE YOU EVER DID SEE] HOLY SHIT. THEY HAD THE WRONG ANGLE IN THE ORIGINAL IM SO IN LOVE WITJ THIS ONE. HOLY FUCK JWNDRKEJT

[kvothes]

so true

[floopthecooper]

listen, I may be slightly obsessed with this AU ship

it's just so goddamn good

HANAMUSA (JESSIExDELIA) MASTER POST

I probably should have started doing this forever ago but I wasn’t sure how long I was gonna stick with drawing these comics. But I guess we’re in it now! This will be continually updated~ EVERYTHING UNDER THE CUT

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